Hey all!!
So first of all I was thinking a lot about what I could
title my email today and I finally got it. It doesn`t have much to do about the
things that happened this week but I thought it was funny. So first of all,
there is a crazy old guy in our area who is super famous because he honestly
seems like a zombie. He had some drug addiction problems in his youth and
completely fried his brain and now he just walks around mumbling and chasing
people and yelling swear words at them. Haha, and well he likes to give people
names, the name that he has chosen for me is John F. Kennedy, and everytime we
see him he yells ``I will learn English to talk to you John F. Kennedy because
in my past life I killed you!`` Haha he`s just a harmless old guy, but its
funny! Then, this week Elder Crandall and I were just walking through the
apartment buildings in our area, and all these little kids started yelling,
"gueritos!" which is the equivalant f white boys and pretty much
everyone yells us that here. But, when we passed by them they came running up
to us and stopped us, and said "Can we please have your autograph, so we
got to give them all our autograph and they ran away super excited. That was a
cool moment of the mission.
So the coolest thing from last week was with the Paniagua
family (yes their name means bread and water). The hermano is our ward mission
leader and a recent convert of like a year and a half, and they went and got
sealed int he temple this last week and then on Saturday evening, he got to
baptize his grandson, Yamil! We have had a long battle there, because Hermano
Paniagua`s daughter wants nothing to do with the church and has not wanted to
give him permission to be baptized, but she finally gave it to him after much
prayers on our part and the part of that family, what a miracle that shows how
the Lord can truly soften hearts.
Next on the list, after a tough week last week with finding
new investigators, we really got it moving again. Some of the tender mercies
that we saw this week: 1 we are teaching Tomy`s niece and her husband right now
and the third time that we went there, we asked them, do you have any questions
for us? Cristian and Ema looked at each other, and then Cristian said,
"What do we have to do to be baptized?" wow, thats a really cool
question! 2 we are right now visiting a recovering drug addict named Johnathon
and as we taught him the Gospel of Jeus Christ, even before we extended the
invitation, he said, "I think I would like to be baptized in one month,
how does that sound to you guys?" President has told us so many times,
when the people that we teach truly understand the magnitude of the doctrine
that we teach, they wont be able to wait, how true it is! Our message is true
and is changing lives. 3 We recieved a reference where a sister chased us down
on the street and told us, I am from another ward but I want you to teach my
friend who lives here. We obviously consented with much enthusiasm! Her name is
Sandra, and she was pretty hesistant the first time that we met her in her
doorstep, but by the end of the first visit she was anxious to learn more of
the restored gospel. I loved seeing how much the spirit worked on these people
that we are teaching! He is the real teacher, not us! then number 4 isn`t with
a newer investigator, but on Sunday our bishop called me out of the Gospel
Principles class and he told me, Elder Stout you have to come and see this, so
I went with him to his office and he showed me on his whiteboard that it was
written "Valeria, 6 of August, 6 pm" and he told me that Valeria
Ortiz Muñoz who we dropped a little bit ago because she seemed to have lost intest
in the things came and talekd with him and set her own baptismal date. What a
blessing this week was, the Lord is always behind us, it is just learning how
to be patient!
I hope you all recognize His hand in your week as well,
Elder Stout
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